different between occurring vs happen
occurring
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??k???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??k?????/
- Hyphenation: oc?cur?ring
Verb
occurring
- present participle of occur
Noun
occurring (plural occurrings)
- An instance of something occurring; an event or happening.
Adjective
occurring (not comparable)
- (in combination) That occurs in a specified manner.
- naturally occurring macromolecules
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happen
English
Etymology
From Middle English happenen, hapnen, augmented from Middle English happen (“to come to pass, happen”), perhaps from Old English hæppan (“to move accidentally, slip”) and/or from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijan? (“to fit in, be fitting”). Equivalent to hap (“a chance, occurrence, byfall”) +? -en (verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hæp?n/
- Rhymes: -æp?n
Verb
happen (third-person singular simple present happens, present participle happening, simple past and past participle happened)
- (intransitive) To occur or take place.
- Synonyms: come to pass; see also Thesaurus:happen
- (transitive, archaic) To happen to; to befall.
- (intransitive or impersonal, with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
- (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
- 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, ch. 30:
- Unexpectedly, in a nook close by the farmhouse, he happened upon a spot where the vintage had actually commenced.
- 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, ch. 30:
Usage notes
- In the sense which indicates a chance occurrence, happen is a catenative verb that takes the to-infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Derived terms
Related terms
- happening
- happenstance
Translations
Adverb
happen (not comparable)
- (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???p?(n)/
- Rhymes: -?p?n
Verb
happen
- to take a bite
Inflection
Noun
happen
- Plural form of hap
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- what happened in 1776
- what happens after you die
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